Democracy Now! 2026-02-17 Tuesday
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 17, 2026; “Keep Hope Alive”: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President; Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson: One of the Most Significant Political Leaders of “Last 100 Years”; Jesse Jackson’s Legacy: From Marching with MLK to Building the Rainbow Coalition; When ICE Agents Lie: DOJ Drops Charges Against 2 Minneapolis Men Falsely Accused of Attempted Murder
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.5 | We must never surrender. |
| 0:23.6 | America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. |
| 0:25.6 | Keep hope alive. |
| 0:27.6 | Keep hope alive. |
| 0:28.6 | Keep hope alive. |
| 0:29.6 | The towering civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, has died at the age of 84. We'll look at Jackson's historic life and legacy, |
| 0:41.3 | from his close association with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s |
| 0:47.3 | to his historic presidential campaigns in the 80s, |
| 0:51.3 | to his role as a global peacemaker. They were spending a trillion dollars in Iraq on the wrong target. |
| 0:59.0 | Overthoring the government in Libya, |
| 1:02.0 | it will begin there and billions more to restore it. |
| 1:04.0 | Two billion a week in Afghanistan, and yet we're laying off teachers, firemen, policemen. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll speak with Howard University professor Clarence Lusane and civil rights activist Larry Hamm, |
| 1:17.7 | who served as co-chair of the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign in New Jersey in 1988, |
| 1:25.5 | and was a Jackson delegate in 84 and 88. |
| 1:28.3 | Plus, we hear from another Jackson delegate, |
| 1:32.3 | Senator Bernie Sanders, about Reverend Jackson's legacy. |
| 1:37.3 | I happen to believe that Jesse Jackson |
| 1:43.3 | is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country |
| 1:50.2 | in the last 100 years. |
| 1:54.8 | All that and more coming up. |
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